With spring really starting to take hold, let us give one parting thought to the season's snowfall.

As of March 31, 63.7 inches had fallen at Long Island MacArthur Airport during the season, which runs from July 1 of one year through June 30 of the next. That's well over twice the airport's norm of 24.2 inches for that time, according to forecasters.

"It's been a very unsettled winter," said David Manning, a meteorologist in the National Weather Service's Eastern Region, headquartered in Bohemia. He said conditions led some locations to "rack up some pretty impressive snowfall totals."

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"I do not see any possibility of accumulating snow through the middle of the month, at which time it is just too warm," News 12 Long Island meteorologist Bill Korbel said. "I don't think I am climbing too far out on a limb to say you can probably put away the snow shovels and snow blowers."